Photo radar returns

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The province is bringing back photo radar.

Premier Wynne says any revenue brought in will stay with the municipalities but according to parents here in Hamilton, you can’t put a price tag on their children’s safety.

The province says 14% of all people killed on roads in 2013 died in collisions where speed was a factor. Which is why they’re introducing a law that, if passed, allows cities to install photo radar cameras around school and community safety zones. Speeders licence plates will be photographed and a hefty fine and possible demerit points will follow.  Seen as a cash grab, Premier Mike Harris scrapped photo radar in 1995.

Hamilton city council is well aware of photo radar. Their request to install the cameras along the Red Hill Valley Parkway and Lincoln Alexander Parkway was turned down by the province. Today, councillor Sam Merulla will look to have those highways deemed community safety zones thus qualifying them for photo radar.